Splendid E-zine: 14 Books You Might Find In Stephin Merritt’s Bathroom: best link I’ve found in days, particularly as it’s actually serious. Kind of.
Subliminal message to readers: BUY 69 LOVE SONGS BY THE MAGNETIC FIELDS.[…]

Common: Like Water for Chocolate: Pitchfork Review – so here’s a question, following on from Tanya’s Marvin Gaye dissection in IHM. Is the idea of ‘soul’ – whether as genre or innate musical quality – actuall[…]

Ivor Novello awards: The winners: “Best song musically and lyrically: Strong – Robbie Williams. Lord have mercy.[…]

Rage Against The Machine: Ned Raggett discusses the popular political band, from Freaky Trigger.[…]

DUEL!: and this morning’s competitors, The Bloodhound Gang and Paul Weller.[…]

orsomething.: it’s a blog, not specifically about music – in fact not at all about music – but with a lot of back-and-forth debate over the MP3s/Napster issue. And the people involved have a working web bullshit-detector, always a r[…]

In 1971, Marvin Gaye released What’s Goin’ On?, an album of unprecedented ambition for soul music, which addressed real issues – poverty, the state of the nation, the economy – and did so with thick, complex arrangements and, […]

Machine Age: Net Loss – cool analysis of the MP3 situation. As I was saying earlier, bad news for record shops. (link via Fred, who offers a bit more analysis too).[…]

REM – “STAND”
I mean, what the FUCK?[…]

Blur join row over MP3: mostly worth reading for the arrogant comments by a Jeepster spokesman. (Without internet piracy, incidentally, I would not now be into their most profitable band, whose records I have been buying in shops, rather than, as pre[…]